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My wife shared with me recently her Nobel Prize ........

LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
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......Nobel Prize possession. :D

My son was studying in Sweden in 2005-06. Turns out students can enter a lottery to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm. The odds of getting tickets are about 1%.

Sure enough, he won. He invited my wife to attend and they had a grand time watching the Royal family, guests, etc. and trying to be sure they used the dizzying array of silverware in the correct order!

One of the souvenirs were these wrapped chocolates. They are about 2 and 1/8th inch diameter with reeded edges.

She pulled them out recently, along with programs, etc - I didn't even know she had them!

The only other numismatic chocolate I own are Morgan Dollar chocolates that were given out at a major Morgan Dollar display years ago.

If you have any other "numismatic" chocolate, post them!

"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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  • Sandman70gtSandman70gt Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Will pcgs encapsulate and grade it?
    Pretty cool Tim!!

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Sandman70gt said:
    Will pcgs encapsulate and grade it?
    Pretty cool Tim!!

    That would be awesome! I assume there would be a guarantee waiver in the event it melts apart.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I know PCGS employees have slabbed chocolate coins before - along with crickets and a few other odds and ends..... :D

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Super fun!

    m

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  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,679 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mine are weakly struck,,,,,

    GrandAm :)
  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 25, 2021 9:13PM

    Funny thing..... kids would rather have the chocolate ones than actual gold.

    I'm glad the "greater fool" theory doesn't apply here. ;)

    ..... or does it?????

  • fathomfathom Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would get chocolate coins every Hanukah as a kid but I ate 'em.

    Even if I knew I could post them decades later...I still would have ate 'em.

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BryceM said:
    Funny thing..... kids would rather have the chocolate ones than actual gold.

    Also funny is that the daughters of Mormon Gold Mint Mater John Moburn Kay used his gold bars to build toy log cabins!

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd love to have that PCGS Franky - just couldn't bring myself to pay the fare at the time.

    Here's the Chocolate pieces from the Morgan display. Anyone recall the year of the display??

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool chocolate coin!

    When I was in grad school I worked for a future Nobel Prize laureate and took a course taught by him at the same time. In the course we spent a great deal of time studying the work of his former mentor, who would later go on to also become a Nobel Prize laureate. I guess I dropped the ball on that one...

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Lakesammman said:
    I'd love to have that PCGS Franky - just couldn't bring myself to pay the fare at the time.

    How much was it?

    Here's the Chocolate pieces from the Morgan display. Anyone recall the year of the display??

    Great looking coin! That deserves a sample slab!

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Zoins - I'm guessing the rim dings might limit the grade to genuine ......

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • OliverDePlaiseOliverDePlaise Posts: 102 ✭✭✭

    Coins you can eat! Who needs barter? B)

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Zoins said:

    @Sandman70gt said:
    Will pcgs encapsulate and grade it?

    Of course, they already have!

    (nd) Franklin Gold Coin - by See's Candies - Chocolate with Golden Foil - Ex. Mike Vanyur, Jim Cauley

    David Schwager wrote:

    I heard that it melted in the summer heat and is no longer in mint condition.

    https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n43a11.html

    So now it's sort of like a slabbed dirty diaper.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have not seen a slabbed chocolate coin (other than here), but if one were at a show, I would be tempted to add it as exonumia..... I prefer white chocolate for flavor usually, but super dark premium chocolate is also nice. Foil wrapped chocolate coins seem to be popular around the holidays... Cheers, RickO

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Sandman70gt said:
    Will pcgs encapsulate and grade it?
    Pretty cool Tim!!

    If they don't want to, contact ANACS. They used chocolate coins to test how safe the sealing process on their current holders back when they were new. Sort of how Han Solo was encased in carbonite to see if it would be safe for Luke. Don't send to NGC, as their prongs will make a mess out of it.

    John
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,564 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Way Kewl!

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now if the Nobel chocolates are wrapped in gold leaf, that would be awesome. Peace Roy

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  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 6,970 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So I can leave a mint packaged coin unopened in my safe for years and years, but the odds on the chocolate coins surviving undisturbed is pretty much not going to happen. My mouth is watering just thinking about them. Yum, Yum, Burp!

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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    About a decade or so ago there was an exhibit at either the ANA or FUN show that was nothing but chocolate coins and currency. It was one of the coolest exhibits that I ever saw.

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